Grants Getting Results | 2008-2009

For years, Fareeda had concealed her abuse for fear that revealing it would get her family deported. But with deportation inevitable, and a death threat looming over her, she finally came forward about the abuse to a counselor at the shelter. Sanctuary for Families was called right away >>

In 1993, The Trust made its first grant to the Campaign for Fiscal Equity to challenge the State funding formula for education that has historically shortchanged City students. After 15 years, and $3.1 million in grants, The Trust helped win a lawsuit that promises billions for City schools.Read more >>

The Trust made $8 million in grants to 12 City nonprofits in February and March of 2009 to help needy New Yorkers who are being devastated by the recession. We’re impressed with what they’ve already accomplished—and they aren’t done yet >>

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lynn Nottage is an inspiration to playwrights everywhere. But in 1993, long before receiving this honor, she received a New York Community Trust Van Lier fellowship with New Dramatists, an organization that helps playwrights develop their work >>

With a grant of $35,000 from The Trust in 2003, Friends of the High Line was able to hire a fundraiser to help attract public money for the High Line, resulting in commitments of $74 million in City and federal funding >>

To help Lincoln Center stay true to its mission, The Trust has made three grants since 2005 totaling $275,000 that have helped plan a discount ticket center and other projects that will welcome diverse audiences onto the campus and into theaters >>

The Bronx River, the City's only freshwater river is beautiful, but, until recently, was just too hard to get to. With support from The Trust, a coalition of more than 70 community groups and government agencies, came together to open the river to Bronx residents >>

Terrence Fisher, a 19-year-old Bedford-Stuyvesant teenager, wanted to show how guns were destroying his neighborhood. So, with guidance and assistance from Pro-TV, a project of the Downtown Community Television Center he was enrolled in to learn media arts, he began a documentary in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn about gun violence and culture.